Mine is computers, I spend every free second on them.

  • marx2k@lemmy.world
    21·
    11 months ago

    Sourdough breads, brewing beer and wine, growing mushrooms, hydroponics, soapmaking, brewing kombucha, making kefir (both kinds), growing marijuana, back yard chickens, gardening, growing sprouts for weekly harvest…

    Last night I pondered out loud about a getting a bigger house to get more room for hobbies :/

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      That’s just brilliant. I was interested in hydroponics too, but quickly realised that economically speaking, I’d be better off purchasing my vegetables anyway.

      I’d love to learn how to make sauces though

      • marx2k@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Search “kratky system”. For real i mix 5 gallons of nutrient solution, put it into a 5 gallon bucket, drop 3 plants into that bucket and do nothing else…

        This is 2 buckets, 6 plants in front of my grow tent with a 16oz bottle for scale.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        11 months ago

        I don’t have a guide but a simple rockwool system is great and pretty easy to manage. Results are explosive.

  • ink@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    11 months ago

    Mine is drawing. I’ve had other hobbies and have other things that I enjoy doing, but drawing is the most engaging thing for me. Your standards always outpace your ability, so there’s never a moment when you feel like you’ve accomplished everything you could’ve accomplished. There’s always something new to draw or learn about.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
      5·
      11 months ago

      Ha ha nice name ^^

      So carbon ink or Indian :-D ? I made a community for art in progress !aip@lemmy.mindoki.com to share progress, there are so many parameters and combinations…

      So what are you drawing and what are inspiring you most?

      • ink@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        11 months ago

        Haha, any kind of ink works for me, as long as I can draw with it! Also, I’m always looking for art communities on Lemmy, so I just joined!

        Currently, I’m doing studies of mechanical joints and greebles to improve my ability to draw hard surface stuff (e.g. mechs, vehicles, inorganic constructs), and I’m also drawing a shitpost meme when I need to take a break from studying! :)

        • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
          2·
          11 months ago

          Cool! Post as you like, and share other art communities too, IMO we’re all in it together!

          Greebles, guess I just learned a new word :-D that seems, hrm, time consuming to say the least O_o when can we see an example?

          Cheers

  • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
    14·
    11 months ago

    Bouldering and running are the things I find I want to sink most of my free time into lately. Secondary to that it is general strength and yoga excercises.

    I’m a sucker for a good book, recently read the Dune series, it was fantastic.

    Then of course music (rap, hip-hop, rock), podcasts (too many to list or keep up with properly, really).

    Video games used to be big, but these days nothing really tickles my pickle. I used to be mostly into PvP (first few seasons of league, speedrunners, MW2, Battlerite, Omega Strikers) but these days it is rare to find good ones, single-player stuff rarely catches my attention enough to sink hours in. Usually nothing I try these days lasts more than 2-3 times playing it.

    • chrizzowski@lemmy.ca
      3·
      11 months ago

      I always find climbing and running to be such complimentary activities. Strength and cardio both covered between the two of them, and at their core all you really need is a pair of shoes for each.

      • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
        2·
        11 months ago

        Yes, the barrier for entry is so low. You can even run barefoot if you are so inclined (I do experiment with this). Granted climbing can become expensive-ish if you want to do regular climbing. But bouldering is very cheap to get into.

        Plus there is something so primal about running and climbing. Like these are the things we are supposed to be good at, it is how we are meant to move in some sense. It feels so empowering to know you can run for X time/distance or that you can climb a wall this hard…

    • Mr_Mope@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      Chapterhouse: Dune is legit my favorite book of all time. The series is my favorite series but I love how bat shit crazy everything is after Children.

    • noroute@lemmy.worldOP
      213·
      11 months ago

      Anything related to computers in general from building them to programming and simply using them. I’m a big fan of open source software and linux.

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        I hate that Framework doesn’t support Coreboot yet. That’s perhaps the only laptop brand I’d be willing to spend $1000 on to purchase a laptop from, but unless they act on it I’m not buying anything from them. Unfortunately, System76 isn’t really present outside the US, which makes it a real pickle I’m in

        • asudox@lemmy.worldM
          1·
          11 months ago

          OP didn’t spam any Linux questions to this community. Am I missing something? OP literally has 4 posts he ever made and only one of them is about Linux

      • FMT99@lemmy.world
        10·
        11 months ago

        You know email… Sending emails, receiving emails, deleting emails. Clicking, double clicking.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Na, anyone working in the IT field knows that computers mean anything with a cable attached to it.

  • JakoJakoJako13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    Wargaming. It’s given me a social life. I’ve developed new skills like painting. It has side hobbies like 3d printing. Hopefully I can make it a career too. I’ve always dabbled with 3d software like Blender. Three months ago I took the leap to learning 3d sculpting with the plan to release my own designs for miniatures. I really wanna make my own Dark Elves for The Old World.

    • LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      That’s sick! There are many fantasy ranges in 3d that imho are even better than GWs, and they are gonna explore im popularity with old world. Last Sword are my favorite, so much character.

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
    10·
    11 months ago

    Making stuff! Fibre crafts, gamedev, general tinkering. Occasional drawing despite being lifelong terrible at it. Making stuff for no real reason other than enjoyment of it is what life’s all about!

  • metallic_substance@lemmy.world
    9·
    11 months ago

    Music. 2 years ago I started teaching myself guitar and have played almost every day since then. At the beginning of last year I added learning to sing to my routine. Next year is going to be focused on singing and playing at the same time. Eventually I’ll start writing my own music.

    It’s been the best hobby I’ve ever gotten into. It’s stress relieving and makes me feel good about myaelf for accomplishing something that I thought for a long time I could never get good at. I have recordings of playing and singing throughout the last few years. When I feel discouraged or like I’ve hit a plateau, I listen back to where I was when I started and instantly appreciate how far I’ve come. I’m pretty sure at this point that music will be a lifelong pursuit for me.

      • Despotic Machine@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Both 😆 . I started with guerilla gardening, noticed trees are left alone more than small plants, then eventually bought some land where I now have about a thousand trees, some were there, most I have planted. It’s a permaculture-ish food forest incorporating regenerative Ag and carbon capture in the making.

        I have a little nursery area where I sprout seeds and grow seedlings of all kind of trees and bushes and give them away and plant them wherever I can.

        Going by your username, you also get your hands dirty. What’s your focus?

    • Mr_Mope@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      I’ve started watching how to videos about bonsai lately. I’ve alway been curious but the time to grow and keeping the trees alive always seems intimidating.

      Plus the folks who do this professionally seem to repot semi regularly and cut away a ton of roots. Everytime I’ve tried to repot something, I’ve killed it.

      • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        A lot of times, yes. With surprising results.

        For example, a form of letter substitution was made where different squiggle combinations were different letters, made so that a drawing can be drawn and the code could be visible in the lined drawing’s lines, making sure the code was made in such a way that it could be used no matter what was being drawn.

        Colors, shapes, sizes, noise, measurements, anything that can be distinguished into forms and types is potentially someone’s communicating.

        • withtheband@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          Oh cool - can you share the name of that work/those works?

          I actually meant less “encrypted” artworks, but more “regular” works, where you would wonder the artists intent or try see what feelings the artwork can offer and why it works.

    • gwkt@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      I think it could be interesting to encode messages into the DNA of an ant, for example, then mail the ant somewhere so that the receiver can sequence the DNA and decode the message

      • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        That’s been done, though it’s much harder to do on living things because attempting to change the DNA of something that’s still alive opens up a can of worms that makes it not worth it. They’ve once proved you can encode the whole of Wikipedia on a few strands of hair.